cheahsoonhai

Gerakan Central Bureau on Environment, Safety and Quality of Life Chairman

Dr. Cheah Soon Hai

 
 

29 November 2012

 
 

Gerakan Central Bureau on Environment, Safety and Quality of Life Chairman, Dr. Cheah Soon Hai is concern with the recent increasing amount of accidents involving motorcyclist colliding their motorcycles into road potholes.

 
 

"Some of these potholes have not been properly maintained by the authorities in charge. They can remain at one place for a long time without any restoration being taken. Only after an accident happened, the pothole was quickly repaired in order to appease the public uproar."

 
 

Dr. Cheah, also Kedah Derga state assemblyman said that some of these potholes are man-made when the utility companies and departments did not put adequate warnings to remind motorcyclist about the ongoing restoration up ahead. Some of them might just hastily restore the pothole upon completing their work, leaving it to be unstable.

 
 

"How many more innocent lives have to be lost before the authorities in charge are wiling to take action swiftly?"

 
 

He further commented that although the recently installed AES system was meant to prevent road users from speeding, one must not forget that road maintenance is equally important to prevent road accidents.

 
 

"I think that the authorities in charge should establish a task force team to patrol on roads under their jurisdiction to identify roads which are in need of repair. At the same time, in order to gain co-operation from the people, I hope that a simple and user friendly channel can be established for the people to voice their complaints on the road condition while at the same time action must be taken quickly upon receiving the report."